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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy[/quote]
The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.[/quote]

Totally agree. There is a definitional problem here -- some people are thinking preppy as in old money, WASPy, prep school (i.e., the original definition). Then I think other people are thinking preppy like Abercrombie and Fitch or, like, nouveau riche Upper East Side kids. Fair enough, maybe the definition has expanded.

When I think of "preppy" names, I think of the classic family names other people have listed -- Patricia, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Virginia -- that maybe come with goofy nicknames like Pitty or Khaki or Bitsy or something.  That's what I associate with old money, horsey set, prep school preppy.

But names like Mackenzie and Delaney and Preston have a faux gravitas to them that just rings false to me.[/quote]

Absolutely.

(and Bitsy is my very favorite nickname for Elizabeth :) )[/quote]

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